January 1987
Volume 12
Number 1
Features
The 87 Most Interesting People in Town
The all-new class of 1987. You won’t find them all in the headlines, but you will find them wherever the action is.
By The Editors
The Morning After
Tony Earl’s chief policy advisor tackles the toughest question on the morning after Wisconsin’s gubernatorial campaign: Why didn’t we win?
By Hal Herman
Great Expectations
So who is this tall, gangly guy named Jack Sikma anyway, and why are the Bucks willing to spend $6 million on him?
By Vic Feuerherd
Making Tracks
Ski fashions that light up the slopes with style.
By Arlenc Wilson
The Spy Nobody Believed
In 1985, ex-Milwaukeean Ron Rewald was found guilty of bilking $22 million out of unsuspecting investors. His excuse? He says the CIA made him do it.
By Scott King
Departments
Out Front
By Charles J. Sykes
Letters
Yips and yahoos.
The Insider
New! More stories than ever: the inside scoop on Milwaukee’s Soviet invasion, adults who can’t read, bowling trivia and more.
Edited by Leslie J. Ratay
Misc.
Those little extras that make winter so sporting an occasion.
By Victoria Vaccarello
Metroscene
Activities for starting the year off right.
Edited by Dawn M. Behr
Dining Guide
Looking for a good meal? Check here first.
Columns
Film
How Hollywood is regaining some self-respect by plundering American plays.
By Mike Wilmington
Business
The low-key guy who struck it rich by selling clothes that aren’t in style.
By Helen Pauly
Finance
The tax man Cometh, and here’s all kinds of number-crunching advice.
By Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
Restaurants
Downtown revitalization means the return of some classic buildings and some new classy food.
By Willard Romantini
Fine Arts
Three little theater companies you might not know about — but
should.
By Bruce Murphy
Endgame
1987 will live in infamy as the year it became okay to be . . . just okay.
By Charles J. Sykes
On The Cover: Marvin Berkowitz, FT. Roc O’Connor, Denise Wahlberg, Albert Yee, Catherine Heenan and Isabelle Polacheck, photographed by John Nienhuis. Styling by Diane Yokes.
